The Art of Meditation, Islip Art Museum

Freedom 8933, archival pigment photograph by Miranda Gatewood, has been chosen for The Art of Meditation, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY, curated by Seung Lee. The exhibit runs from August 15 through October 7, 2018. Freedom 8933 is part of a series of images that explore motion. Using the camera to freeze a definitive moment, transient and somewhat random views are made solid. Light, itself, and the temporal properties of the day are made into objects to behold. The series comments on the way things are seen and absorbed in a hypervisual culture, with its deficit of depth, lack of deep examination, and the brevity of the experience. I use photography to make an object of time, to make an object of light, or both.

50 Irish Lane, East Islip, NY 11730. Phone: 631-224-5402. Open Tuesday-Friday 10 am-4 pm; Saturdays 12-4 pm. Closed Sunday & Monday. The Islip Art Museum is the leading exhibition space for contemporary art on Long Island. The New York Times has called the Museum the “best facility of its kind outside Manhattan.”